Presentation by Robin Chazdon at the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.

1. Making Forest and Landscape Restoration Happen:
Policy Goals and Knowledge Gaps
Robin L. Chazdon, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, David Lamb,
Lars Laestadius, Miguel Calmon, Chetan Kumar

2. Momentum is building for large-scale
restoration all over the world
2 billion hectares worldwide

3. Planting trees is easy

6. Restoring landscapes is NOT easy

7. Forest landscape restoration (FLR): the long-term process of regaining
ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across
deforested or degraded forest landscapes
 Large-scale (land-use mosaics, watersheds)
 Forward-looking
 Focus on restoring provision of ecosystem goods and services
 Active engagement of local stakeholders
 Suite of restoration approaches
 Adapted to local context
 Complements existing land uses

9. farmers
rural and traditional communities
urban
community
coorporate landowners
forestry and
agricultural
agencies
national government
Policy goal:
Reversing effects of
degradation through a
widespread, long-
lasting process
How can we build
capacity to inform, train,
promote, and monitor
FLR through our
extension services?
How will FLR improve the
provision of water and water
quality in our cities?
How can we pay for
restoration and overcome the
opportunity costs of restoring
degraded land on our farms?
How can FLR provide jobs,
promote local knowledge and
culture, improve livelihoods,
and increase ecosystem
services for us?
What institutional
frameworks and
collaborative arrangements
are needed to develop and
implement effective and
long-lasting FLR policies?
How can FLR offset the
environmental impact
caused by my business
activities?

10. Knowledge comes from many sources and is
disseminated in many ways

12. Thank you!

13. farmers and landowners
national government
Policy goal:
Mobilize sufficient
financial resources to
sustain the
implementation of
FLR
How can landholders receive
financial benefits from
restoration, including from
payments from the generation
of ecosystem services?
How can funding from diverse bi-
lateral and multi-lateral
development assistance sources
be coordinated, distributed, and
managed to maximize overall
benefits and cost effectiveness?
How can private enterprise
and financial institutions work
with local municipalities and
landowners to finance
restoration and generate new
revenues?
corporate landowners and
financial institutions

14. farmers and landowners
national government
Policy goal:
Develop appropriate
interventions to suit
different types of
ecological and economic
circumstances
What are the effects of different
restoration interventions on the rates at
which ecosystem services recover and on
the tradeoffs and synergies among them,
at different spatial scales?
How do the spatial configuration
and extent of restored ecosystems
influence biodiversity and overall
provision of ecosystem services
within a landscape matrix?
Under what conditions is
natural regeneration a viable
restoration approach
compared to planting?
forestry and agricultural
agencies

15. farmers and landowners
national government
Policy goal:
Prioritize lands that are
most in need of
restoration and where
restoration will bring
greatest benefits
Where are the intersections between areas
where the need for ecosystem services is
greatest and where restoration could
significantly increase the supply of these
ecosystem services?
What tools and local knowledge are
needed to configure landscapes that
combine ecosystem restoration,
productive land uses, food-water-
energy security, biodiversity
conservation, and poverty alleviation?
What definition of degradation
and which expected benefits
could be used to identify and
map priority areas for
restoration?
forestry and agricultural
agencies